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Tencent Official Partner

Your WeChat Advertising Agency for China

Moments, banner, Channels, and search ads planned, launched, and managed by a Tencent official partner. Paid ads fill the top of your funnel. Your Official Account and private domain keep what they catch.

1.4B
WeChat Monthly Active Users (Tencent, Q1 2025)
10+ yrs
Buying WeChat Ads for Brands
800+
Brands Launched in China
1,500 RMB
Minimum Daily Test Budget (Auction)
What We Run

WeChat Advertising Services, Managed End to End

WeChat advertising is not one product. It's Moments ads, banner and in-article placements, Channels video, search ads, and a mini-program ad network, each with its own buying model and minimums. As your WeChat ads agency, we handle the account opening, the Chinese creative, the targeting, and the spend. You get the leads and a report you can read.

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Moments Ads

The flagship feed format. Your ad sits in the same stream as posts from friends and family, with the reach and price tag to match.

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Channels Video Ads

Feed video ads and livestream promotion in WeChat's short-video surface, the platform's fastest-growing ad inventory.

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WeChat Search Ads

Keyword ads inside WeChat's own search engine, catching users at the moment they look for your category.

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Mini-Program Ad Network

Incentive video and interstitial inventory inside third-party mini-programs, bought through the same ad account.

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Creative, H5 & Landing Pages

Chinese ad copy, native creative production, A/B testing, and the in-ecosystem landing pages your campaigns are required to use.

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Targeting, Attribution & Reporting

Audience setup, conversion tracking that works from outside China, and monthly English reporting tied to cost per lead.

How We Work

From Account Opening to a Working Paid Channel

Four steps from compliance paperwork to campaigns that scale on evidence.

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Compliance & Account Opening

Foreign brands can't self-serve on WeChat ads. We open your advertiser account through the authorized service provider route: notarized overseas business registration, legal representative ID, trademark documents, and category pre-review. Typically 5 to 10 working days.

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Strategy & Creative

We set the format mix and budget split against your objective, then produce the Chinese creative and landing pages. You approve a media plan with costs before anything spends.

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Launch & Manage

Campaigns go live with daily monitoring. We manage bids, frequency, and placements, and run creative A/B tests from the first week.

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Optimize & Scale

We cut what underperforms, scale what converts, and expand into new formats as evidence builds. Quarterly, we reset the plan with you against cost-per-lead targets.

Costs & Rules

What WeChat Advertising Costs and How the System Actually Works

The two buying models, with real minimums

WeChat sells ads two ways. Scheduling (ζŽ’ζœŸ) buys fixed placements for fixed periods: for Moments ads, plan on roughly 50,000 RMB per campaign, with pricing revised quarterly. Auction (竞价) is real-time bidding with far lower entry: Moments auction campaigns start at 1,500 RMB per day, and banner clicks start around 0.5 RMB. Those auction minimums are why a serious WeChat ads test no longer requires six figures. We confirm current rate-card numbers at booking, because Tencent adjusts them.

Ads fill the funnel. Private domain keeps it.

A follower acquired through paid campaigns costs a foreign brand roughly 15 to 40 RMB with precise targeting. That number only makes sense if you keep the follower: content, CRM, and community turn one paid click into repeat revenue. That retention side is a different discipline, and it’s covered by our WeChat agency service. Run both and the economics change; run ads alone and you’re renting attention.

What foreign brands can and cannot do

There’s no self-serve path for overseas advertisers. Accounts open through authorized service providers like us, with notarized company documents and category certifications. Restricted categories include alcohol, tobacco, gambling, and most medical products. And one rule shapes everything: your ads land inside WeChat, on a mini-program, Official Account page, or Tencent-hosted H5, never on your own website.

What changed since 2024

Two shifts matter. Channels became a serious ad surface, with feed video and livestream promotion taking budget that used to default to Moments. And pairing creators with paid budget became the standard approach: a Channels creator makes the content, and ad spend amplifies the version that works. If your last WeChat media plan predates Channels, it’s out of date.

1.4B
Monthly Active Users (Tencent, Q1 2025)
1B+
Mini-Program Daily Active Users
1,500 RMB
Moments Auction Minimum per Day
15-40 RMB
Typical Cost per Followed User (paid)

Already running WeChat ads?

Send us your campaign data. We'll tell you honestly whether the problem is targeting, creative, landing flow, or the format mix, and what we'd change first.

Where WeChat Ads Fit

WeChat Ads vs. Other Chinese Paid Channels

Feature WeChat Ads Douyin Ads Xiaohongshu Ads
Primary strength Precise targeting into a retention ecosystem Short-video reach and virality High-intent product research audience
User intent Communication, loyalty, service Entertainment, impulse discovery Research before buying
Core formats Moments, banner, Channels video, search In-feed video, livestream Feed notes, search ads, splash
Entry budget 1,500 RMB/day auction; ~50k RMB Moments scheduling Higher creative volume needed Moderate (content + seeding led)
Targeting depth LBS + DMP audience packages + WeChat ID data Interest + behavior + lookalike Keyword + demographic + interest
Best for Repeat sales, B2B, CRM-led brands Mass awareness, launches Beauty, fashion, lifestyle, F&B
GMA service Full management Full management Full management
Results

WeChat Ad Campaigns We've Run

Luxury & Fashion

Moments Campaign for a European Fashion House

A European fashion brand used Moments ads with district-level LBS targeting around its Shanghai and Chengdu boutiques, landing on a mini-program lookbook with store booking. The principle: for premium retail, LBS-targeted Moments ads that land on a booking-enabled mini-program turn feed attention into physical-store footfall, which is where luxury still converts.

B2B Industrial

Banner Retargeting for a Machinery Exporter

A B2B manufacturer ran exchange ads inside industry Official Accounts, retargeting readers into a WeCom lead flow with a technical brochure H5. The principle: in B2B, exchange ads inside the right industry accounts reach a qualified reader cheaply, and a WeCom hand-off keeps the lead inside a nurturable CRM rather than a lost click.

Food & Beverage

Channels Creator + Paid Amplification

An imported F&B brand paired Channels creator videos with paid boosts, sending viewers to a mini-program store during a seasonal campaign. The principle: amplifying a creator video that already works organically is lower-risk than producing brand films cold, and a mini-program store closes the sale in the same app the view happened in.

FAQ

WeChat Advertising Agency FAQ

Weighing up WeChat ads?

Minimum budgets, foreign-advertiser rules, and landing-page restrictions trip up most brands before the first campaign. Straight answers below; send us anything we missed.

Ask Us Directly
How much does WeChat advertising cost?
Platform minimums first: Moments auction from 1,500 RMB per day, banner clicks from about 0.5 RMB, Moments scheduling around 50,000 RMB per campaign. On top sits creative, landing pages, and management. We quote management as a monthly fee scoped to your spend and format mix, and we set it out before anything runs.
Can a foreign company advertise on WeChat without a Chinese entity?
Yes, and this is our daily work. There's no self-serve route: accounts open through authorized service providers with notarized overseas registration documents, legal representative ID, and trademark papers. Category pre-review happens at the same time. Expect 5 to 10 working days before your first campaign can spend.
Can my ads link to my website?
No. WeChat ads land on mini-programs, Official Account pages, or H5 pages hosted on Tencent servers. That's a platform rule, not a preference. We build the landing flow inside the ecosystem, which also converts better: users stay where their payment and identity already live.
What products and content are banned or restricted?
Gambling and tobacco are out. Alcohol, medical, health, finance, and education carry restrictions or extra certification requirements. Creative also passes a review for claims and sensitive wording. We pre-screen your category and copy before anything is submitted, so rejections don't burn your launch window.
Do I need an Official Account before advertising?
For almost every objective, yes. Ads run from and land on ecosystem assets, and a verified Service account unlocks the formats that matter. If you don't have one, we set it up as part of onboarding. Details are on our <a href="https://marketingtochina.com/gma-wechat-agency/">WeChat agency page</a>.
Can the ad creative be in English?
Core ad copy needs to be in Chinese. Your brand name, logo, and slogan can stay in English, and for premium positioning that often helps. We write the Chinese copy natively rather than translating your global lines, because translated taglines read as translated.
How do we track conversions from outside China?
We combine WeChat's conversion tracking with UTM structures and, where relevant, third-party stacks like AppsFlyer, then feed results into your CRM. You see cost per lead in tools your team already uses, not screenshots of a dashboard in Chinese.
Which format should we start with, and when do results come?
With a modest budget we'd usually start with banner and exchange ads plus retargeting, then scale into Moments or Channels once creative and audience data prove out. First useful signals arrive within two to four weeks of spend; stable cost per lead takes a quarter.
Why GMA

The Agency Behind Your China Strategy

GMA is a Tencent official partner with a dedicated advertising team in Shanghai. We've spent more than a decade buying WeChat media for international brands, through every format shift from banner ads to Moments to Channels. Account opening, Chinese creative, bid management, and attribution run in-house, not through a rented desk.

The bridge is the point: a local buying team that works natively in the WeChat ads platform, and an international team that reports to you in plain English. We've launched over 800 brands into China, and we'll say it plainly when WeChat ads aren't your best first spend. Discovery-stage consumer brands often do better starting on Xiaohongshu or Douyin, and we run those too.

Since 2012 Established
1500+ Projects
50+ Specialists

Ready to put budget behind WeChat?

Send us your goals and budget range. Within three working days you'll get a format mix, a realistic cost estimate including platform minimums, and the compliance checklist for your category. No obligation.

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Room 1008, Jingu Central Building, Shanghai
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